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Probably people in rural areas that have limited access to other options. Starlink has probably absorbed most of that market, so no need to have dial up anymore.
Starlink is so much more expensive though, more than a lot of people in rural areas can afford.
Real miss by the NYT here in not finding and interviewing people who were still using it in 2025!
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Starlink is so much more expensive though, more than a lot of people in rural areas can afford.
Cellular internet. Edit: I'm not saying it's a good replacement for dialup, just that I have observed that many cell phone carriers are advertising plans for it now.
I’ve always wondered about the remaining users of the dial-up service. Who are they and what is the use case for using dial-up? Does anyone know?
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Probably people in rural areas that have limited access to other options. Starlink has probably absorbed most of that market, so no need to have dial up anymore.
Starlink is so much more expensive though, more than a lot of people in rural areas can afford.
I have a place less than an hour from Denver and without Starlink there are many, many people on extremely bad, oversubscribed 1Mbit DSL at the end of some gnarly POPs.
There are sometimes local ISPs that provide p2p wifi in extremely limited areas (see: rich neighborhoods) and its fine but for 20/10 you're paying similar prices or more than Starlink for something that's less reliable.
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Starlink is so much more expensive though, more than a lot of people in rural areas can afford.
Cellular internet. Edit: I'm not saying it's a good replacement for dialup, just that I have observed that many cell phone carriers are advertising plans for it now.
Their maps claim there is coverage, but there is not, and they don't really care that its not true.
I’ve always wondered about the remaining users of the dial-up service. Who are they and what is the use case for using dial-up? Does anyone know?
It couldn’t be too many people. Back in 2015, they only had 2.1 million dial up users and that number must have gone down in a decade https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/08/10/aol-dial-up-i... But then again, I would love to have a business that has 2.1 million people or even 100 thousand people paying $10 a month…
Even with 100k customers, I doubt there are more than 0.1% of them connected at a time - the rest will just be paying the bill for a service they don't use.
I’ve always wondered about the remaining users of the dial-up service. Who are they and what is the use case for using dial-up? Does anyone know?
Probably people who have had a recurring payment set up since 1995 and never questioned what they're paying $23.99 per month for the last 30 years for.
Real miss by the NYT here in not finding and interviewing people who were still using it in 2025!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Starlink is so much more expensive though, more than a lot of people in rural areas can afford.
Cellular internet. Edit: I'm not saying it's a good replacement for dialup, just that I have observed that many cell phone carriers are advertising plans for it now.